Conflict can affect people in many ways and the way one sees conflicts can also affect themselves internally. Some people that show how conflict can affect a person are Frederick Douglass and Sophie Scholl. Their conflicts are portrayed in the speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” and the excerpt “Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s shadow”. Frederick Douglass lived through one of the worst violent and controversial times in U.S history. It was the time where slaves were still slaves and discrimination against another race, religion, and color was on the rise. Douglass was invited to speak at Rochester, New York on Independence Day. Douglass, a former slave, answered the question of, “What to the slave is the Fourth of